Aside from the fact that I highly doubt anyone was banned as you describe, EM’s stories have gotten more and more grandiose. So it’s not the same.

Today he’s pitching moonshot projects as core to Tesla.

10 years ago he was saying self-driving was easy, but he was also selling by far the best electric vehicle on the market. So lying about self driving and Tesla semis mattered less.

Fwiw I’ve been subbed to tf00t since his 50 part creationist videos in early 2010s.